Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Fischer

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

John Wooden

Champions are brilliant at the basics.

Rafael Benitez

Now we intend to finish the job with another victory. If we do that we will be virtually through into the knockout stages. We have been very positive in our Champions League matches and I hope that we can continue this now.

Chad Hedrick

I feel good that I'm able to be one of the few people that can be in the 1,000 meters and still potentially be the 10,000-meter Olympic champion as well. The better my start gets, the more competitive I'm going to be.

Roberto Carlos

I feel sure we are going to win either the league or the Champions League. We are a much tougher team that we were at the start of the season and a lot more dangerous.

Jack Dempsey

Champions get up when they can't.

Bobby Douglas

I think Oklahoma State has a great team, and they've had a great run. (The Big 12 championships) have always been a tough tournament, and a lot of the national champions come out of this tournament. I don't think this year will be any different.

H. Hunt

He is the essence of sports in Kansas City and why there is a Truman Sports Complex and, frankly, why the two teams are there. He is and always will be a champion of all sports in Kansas City.

Nigel Collins

If you're the champion and you get beat, the fighter who wins is the new champion. It's very straightforward. We offer fighters an alternative, and we don't strip them of their belts, and we don't charge sanctioning fees. It's very simple.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Elizabeth Blackwell

She played fast-pitch in the spring, and she wasn't going to play slow-pitch,

Martina Hingis

If I play the tennis I played three years ago I would not survive. I know that.

Shawntae Spencer

B.Y. played like he was 23 out there,

Sergei Lavrov

Germany has traditionally played a very constructive role regarding E.U. ties with Russia and the West as a whole with Russia.

Scott Monarch

I didn't think we played well, but I thought we did what it took to win.

Sarah Martin

Our team worked really hard. Well, I told them to work really hard.

Jim Balsillie

No question, we took one for the team here.

Brett Hull

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

Brett Favre

I never thought I would see it. I’m not saying it’s not possible. I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I don’t know. There’s a lot of guys getting picked on (in the locker room). Some handle it well, some don’t handle it as well. I’m not saying it’s right, and from a locker room sense or from a team sense, I’m not saying it’s wrong. It’s just the way it is.

Bobby Knight

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Jamie Spencer

We've got two different teams here. It's like this every year.

Sam Altman

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

Sam Altman

The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.

Mike Bossy

To be honest, no NHL team ever has called me,